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SASH BALANCE. No. 390.767. w Patented Oct-1 9, 1888.

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CI-IARLES FOWLER, OF EAST SPRINGFIELD, NFAV YORK.

SASH-BALANCE.

SPECIPIIQATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 390,767, dated Qatober9, 1888.

Application filed June 23, 1888. Serial No. 277,971.

To all whomit may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES FOWLER, of East Springfield, in the countyof Otsego and State of New York, have invented new and Improved\Vindow-Sash Hangings, of which the following isafull, clear, and exactdescription.

My invention relates to devices for hanging window-sashes without theuse of the pulleys and weights commonly employed; and the invention hasfor its object to provide simple, inexpensive, easily applied, andefficient de vices of this character.

The invention consists in certain arrangements of wires or cords in thewindow or sash frame and friction-pins in the sash, and in means fortaking up any slackness of the hang ing wires or cords as it occurs, allas hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a vertical sectional elevation of the side part of awindow-frame and the grooved edge portions of two sashes fitted thereinby means of my improvement. Fig. 2 is an enlarged inner face view of theupper right-hand corner of one of the sashes, partly broken away and insection, and a part of the hanging wire or cord. Fig. 3 is adetail planview in horizontal section taken on the line was in Fig. 2; and Fig. 4isan enlarged detail view of the connection of one of the sash wires orcords with the window-sill.

The drawings represent upper and lower sashes, A B, fitted in slidewaysa b, respectively, in the window-frame O,which may have any ordinary orapproved construction. The opposite edges of the sashes are providedwith grooves a b, respectively, to accommodate the wires D E, by whichthe sashes A B are hung, there being two of these wires D E, one wire ateach side edge of each sash. The wires or cords D E may be held in anyapproved way to the head 0 and sill 0 of the window-frame C, andpreferably in amanner allowing anyslackness of the wires which may occurto be readily taken up.

As the arrangement of each of the wires D E is precisely the same withrelation to the sash (No model.)

which it hangs in the window-frame, I will more particularly describethe invention with reference to one of the wires D employed to hang thelower sash, A, which will suffice for a clear understanding of thefeatures of the improvement, and as follows: I

I attach the top of the wire to the head 0 of thence downward, but in azigzag course,

around or along the outer sides of a series of pins, H, which are placedalternately at opposite sides of the sash-slot or in staggeredpositions, and the wire then is passed downward through a hole in a wearand guide plate I let into the lower edge of the sash, and thence to andthrough a screw-plug, J, below which the wire is upset or is providedwith a head, (1. The plug J fits a threaded hole in a metal plate, K,which is let into the sill c of the window-frame O, and the sill isbored or cutaway to accommodate the screw-plug J and permit its verticalmovement. Theplate K may be fixed to the window-frame sill by screws, asshown, or in any other secure manner.

The sash'pins H may be plain pins, preferably having heads which willprevent lateral slip of the sash wire or cord from them; but in order toreduce wear and friction on both the pins and the sash wire or cord Iplace rollers h on the pins, along or over which the wire slips as thewindow-sash is raised or lowered. These rollers also materially assistthe easy Working of the sash in the window-frame.

It is obvious when the sash is hung by, two wires, one at each side, inthe manner above described that the sash maybe raised or lowered easilyand conveniently in the windowframe and that the sash will stay or stopeither fully open or closed or at any intermediate position to which itmay be raised orlowered by the hands. Should the hanging wires or cordsbecome slack,so that they allow the sash to slip, it requires but amoment to turn the screw-plug J of the wires in the window-sillnut-plates by a wrench orother tool to stretch or strain up the wires toany degree of tightness which will securely hold the sash when it is letgo and yet allow the sash to work easily in the Window-frame.

It will be noticed that by my improvement ordinary sash-weights withtheir accompanying pulleys or fixtures are dispensed with, while thesashes are hung quite as cheaply or at less cost and operate quite aseifectively, and sashes may be hung by my improved hangings in placeswhere ordinary sash weights and cords could not be used.

Having thus described my inventionl claim as new and desire to secure byLetters Patent- 1. Sash hangings consisting of wires or cords secured tothe sash-frame, and series of pins fixed to the sash in staggeredpositions, and over which pins the wires pass in zigzag or sinuouscourse, substantially as herein set forth.

2. Sash-hangings consisting of wires or cords secured to the sash-frame,and series of pins fixed to the sash in staggered positions, andprovided with anti-friction rollers over which the wires pass in zigzagor sinuous course, substantially as described, for the purposes setforth.

3. The combination, in sashhangings, of wires orcords secured to thesaslrl'rame, apertured wire guide-plates fixed to the top and bottom ofthe sash at the ends of slots therein which receive the wires, and aseries of pins fixed in the sash-slots,and over which pins the wirespass in zigzag or sinuous course, substantially as herein set forth.

4. Sash-hangings consistingofwires or cords secured to the sash-frameand at one end to a screw-plug or tightener device working in the frame,and a series of pins fixed to the sash in staggered positions, and overwhich pins the wires pass in zigzag or sinuous course, substantially asherein set forth.

5. The combination, in sash-hanging fixtures, of wires or cords, as I),seen red to the head of the sash-frame, a series of pins, as H, set intothe sash in staggered positions, and over which the wires pass insinuous course, nutplates K, fixed to the sash-frame sill, andscrew-plugs J, fitted to the plates K, and to which one end of thesash-wires is connected, substantially as shown and described.

CHARLES FOWLER.

XVitnesses:

NELsoN SMITH, .Lums E. SHEPHERD.

